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The Renaissance Tragic Interior and Its Classical Substructure

Alexander, Andrew
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1479810128616127

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2016, PhD, University of Cincinnati, Arts and Sciences: English and Comparative Literature.
How similar is the Classical private interior which birthed the public archetype of the vir bonus to the idea of identity which we now label “modern’ and to which Shakespearean characters lay claim when they assert selfhood by name: “always I am Caesar”; “I am Antony yet”? Over the last 15 years or so, the emergent field of Classical scholarship which has followed the cultural materialist and New Historicist turn in English studies has led to a reconsideration of such questions. Taking advantage of these new lines of inquiry, this discussion examines the extent to which Early Modern identity, as revealed in the works of sixteenth and seventeenth-century tragedians, takes its psychological scaffolding from Classical models, originating with the archaic Greek heroes of Homer and modified by the rhetorical and theatrical tropes of writers and statesmen from the Roman Republic and Imperiate, such as Cicero, Seneca, and Quintilian. Each strand of the argument considers how Classical writers understood their own identities, both idealized and actual. Given that the influence of the Graeco-Roman psychological interior on its Renaissance successor is mediated by intervening centuries of Catholic ideology and Mediaeval appropriation, the avenues of reception for Classical thought in the Renaissance are considered as part of the argument.
Jonathan Kamholtz, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Julia Carlson, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Michael Griffith, M.F.A. (Committee Member)
234 p.
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Renaissance; Tragedy; Interiority; Classical; Homer; Shakespeare

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  • Alexander, A. (2016). The Renaissance Tragic Interior and Its Classical Substructure [Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1479810128616127

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  • Alexander, Andrew. The Renaissance Tragic Interior and Its Classical Substructure. 2016. University of Cincinnati, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1479810128616127.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Alexander, Andrew. "The Renaissance Tragic Interior and Its Classical Substructure." Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1479810128616127

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